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PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

W. M. GORTHELL. ADVERTISING DEVICE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. CORTHELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO MERRITT CORTHELLCO., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed March 25, 1907. Serial No. 364,297.

To all whom ti may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MERRITT CoRrHELL,

a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it pertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to an advertising device or toy and its objectsare to produce a wind actuated construction suitable for use as anadvertising mechanism or for a toy.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described andparticularly pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention and form apart of the specification, Fig-- ure 1 is a front view of a figure orbody carrying opposite blades: Fig. 2 is a view of the same at rightangles to Fig. l, the blades being in a different position, namely, thatassumed in a moderate wind, the

figure showing also part of a support; Fig. 3 is a front view of suchsupport; Fig. 4 is an enlarged partial section of such support; Fig. 5is an enlarged partial section showing the shaft bearing in the body,and

connection of arms to the shaft.

Numeral 1 denotes a figure fixed on a globe or other rotary base 2.These are by preference rigidly joined by a tubular rod 2- which at itslower end receives a post-3 about which it may turn if desired. In somecases it is proposed to support post 3 upon a cross piece 4, to whichare fixed rods 5 and 6 to increase the stability of the body support andmore fully show its rotation. The central rod, 6, may be tubular toreceive a rod or post '7 connected with a foundation or sub-base 8.These rods are further held in fixed relation to each other by a crosspiece 9. The frame comprising rods 5, 6 and suitable cross pieces, orother like frame, may be made rotatable with respect to post 7. In suchcase a hard ball 10 is placed at the top of the rod and within theclosed upper end of the tube 6, as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4. A likebearing may be provided if desired within the tube 2 at top of post 3 asindicated at 10. Upon the globe or other base a suitable figure or body1 is so fixed as to rotate therewith, and this rotation may be producedin any desired manner, but preferably by air currents or blasts.

Numerals 11 and 12 denote plates, blade-members, or vanes made in thepresent instance in the convenient form of a sword and shield oppositelyplaced and balancing each other only approximately. These are fixed to ashaft 13 having a bearing or bearings in the body 1 and rotatabletherewith. The wider faces of these vanes are situated in planes whichout each other, and vane 11 normally over-balances vane 12. The vanes,plates or blade members can be connected to the shaft by bent arms 14and 15, integral therewith or not as found convenient, and provided withsuitable sockets to receive the ends of the shaft. These connections maybe secured by suitable means as screws 16.

The principle of construction and operation would not be essentiallyvaried were the blades, one or both of them, made integral with theshaft. The plate or member 1.1 may be connected near its center with theouter end of arm 14, and 12 joined lengthwise to the fore part of arm15, as represented. As the vane 11 slightly overbalances vane 12 it isnormally held by gravity in its lowermost position and with its face ina vertical plane transverse to the vertical plane passing through thewide face of vane 12. Said vanes fixed on shaft 13 are adapted to berotated in parallel planes, one edgewise and one fiatwise, and both arerotatable with the figure. The position and movements of the vanes willbe varied by the state of the atmosphere and direction of air currents.If the air be quiet they will assume by gravity the position indicatedin Fig. 1. A moderate breeze at right angles to vane 12 when in saidposition will carry the vanes tothe position indicated in Fig. 2, and acurrent against either face of vane 11 willrotate or partially rotatethe figure. In case the wind has not sufficient force to neutralize theoverbalancing gravity of vane 11, the vanes will assume the positionindicated in Fig. 1 or oscillate to and from that position.

Preferably the top of one of the posts 3 or 7 or of both, if both areemployed, will support the parts above it through the medium of anantifriction ball 10 or 10 held in the tube that receives the post by acap or closure 10 The particular form of the body or figure, or of theblades or other details are not essential, and neither are the materialsemployed, though I have found that the body can be conveniently made ofplaster with a small admixture of dextrin, the whole being colored orpainted. The arms may be made of aluminium, and the globe, if employed,of copper, and the shaft of steel.

One main object of the device is to serve as a medium for displayingadvertisements, signs or other information placed on the blades, orglobe, or on both. In some cases the figure or body may be of asuggestive or symbolical character.

The construction without material changes may be 'made of small sizesuitable for a toy and so used, either with or without advertisingadditions.

Having thus described the invention what I claim is,

1. In combination, a base, a rotatable body, a pivot connection betweenthe body and base, the rotatable shaft journaled in the body, andunequal vanes fixed to the ends of said shaft, said vanes being, onealways in a plane paral' lel to the axis of the body, and the other inthe plane of the shaft.

2. In combination, a base, a rotatable body, a pivot connection betweenthe body and base, the rotatable shaft journaled in the body, and a vanefixed to each end of the shaft, said vanes being of different area andhaving their faces always in planes transverse to each other, and one ofthe vanes being in the form of a shield and the other of a 15 sword.

body, the horizontal shaft jonrnaled in the body, a vane secured in avertical plane to an end of the shaft, a second vane secured to theopposite end of said shaft and in a plane transverse to that of thefirst named vane, one of said vanes overbalancing the other.

4. The combination of a body, a rotatable shaft journaled in said body,arms secured to the shaft, and vanes fixed to the arms, one of saidvanes being perpendicular to the shaft and the other in the planethereof, and a bodysupport comprising a rotatable frame.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM M. CORTHELL.

Witnesses:

Man D. Anna, E. M. WA'rnnMAN.

